Check the Crowd Reaction

I remember way back when, playing Gabber in Canada and Oregon state. With live performances gauging the audience is part of the task. Your job is to get the crowd stoked, and you can gauge how you are doing in real time. This is great, you can adjust your performance in response to what is going on in the crowd.

Writing is a totally different animal. I have to try to become the audience myself, and look at what I've written from that perspective. If I am stuck on parts of a story that I am bored with, does that mean the reader will be bored as well? Or would it be intriguing to them, since they don't know what I - as the writer - know?

I am a hobbyist writer, so you probably don't want to listen to me - but...
What I do when I hit a slog in a story is I ask myself if it furthers the plot, or develops a character, or sets a tone, etc. If so it may be useful to leave in - unless it slows the story down, or maybe it reveals too much too soon.

I used to get stuck and situations like this would infect my feelings on the entire story. At that point I would usually just ditch it. But lately I've been localizing that feeling. I'll ditch just the part I'm struggling on, and do so quickly. Then I'll rewrite it - or maybe it simply needs removed. The key is I don't linger.

I just get it did.